ADVICE
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(1183 votes) If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962
(1065 votes) If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
(947 votes) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
(756 votes) Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?
Sorin Cerin
Sorin Cerin
philosopher
(735 votes) A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962
(704 votes) Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962
(691 votes) We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
William R. Alger
William R. Alger
1822-1905, American Writer
(681 votes) Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
Erica Jong
1942-, American Author
(661 votes) Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds Won't you help to sing The songs of freedom?
Bob Marley
Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist
(661 votes) Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day!
Bob Marley
Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist
(605 votes) There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic
(575 votes) The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister, Poet
(551 votes) I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962
(452 votes) Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.
Tony Alesandra
Tony Alesandra
American Businessman, Author, Speaker
(335 votes) I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
(304 votes) The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(301 votes) I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin
(250 votes) Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega
1562-1635, Spanish Playwright
(217 votes) Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha
Buddha
Buddhism Founder, 563-483 B.C.
(205 votes) Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
Bible
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
(204 votes) Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962
(199 votes) Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
(182 votes) Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
Gordon R. Dickson
(173 votes) A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others.
Bible
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
(172 votes) The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(166 votes) The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Sir Arthur Helps
Sir Arthur Helps
1813-1875, British Historian, Novelist, Essayist
(164 votes) Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
Spanish Proverbs
Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin
(161 votes) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd
(160 votes) Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
(158 votes) As you partake of the world's bill of fare,that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
American Writer and Cartoonist, b. 1904-1991
(149 votes) The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyger
Frank Tyger
(148 votes) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's friend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
Bruce Friedman
Bruce Friedman
(148 votes) You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
American Writer and Cartoonist, b. 1904-1991
(141 votes) If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Chinese Proverbs
Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin
(141 votes) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.
Pearl Williams
Pearl Williams
(140 votes) Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
-- W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
-- W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
(137 votes) I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
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